An Important Collection of Photographs by Eugène and Adalbert Cuvelier

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Lot 13
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Eugène Cuvelier 1837-1900

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Description

  • Eugène Cuvelier
  • 'ACHICOURT, PRÈS ARRAS, JANVIER 1866'
albumen print, numbered '322' by the photographer in the negative, mounted, titled and dated in an unidentified hand in pencil on the mount, matted, 1866

Provenance

The collection of John Chandler Bancroft, Middletown, Rhode Island

Gustave J. S. White Co., Auctioneers, Newport, Rhode Island, 1989

Acquired from the above by a New England antiques dealer

To the present owners, 1989

Exhibited

Stuttgart, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Eugène Cuvelier oder Die Legende vom Wald, March - May 1997

Paris, Musée d’Orsay, Eugène Cuvelier (1837-1900) Photographe de la Forêt de Fontainebleau, June - August

Literature

Ulrike Gauss, Henning Weidemann, and Daniel Challe, Eugène Cuvelier (Stuttgart, 1996, in conjunction with the exhibition), no. 322 (this print)

Catalogue Note

This photograph of pollarded trees within a newly-mowed field was taken near the northern French town of Arras, Cuvelier's home town.  Camille Corot, a frequent visitor to the area, made a painting entitled 'Achicourt, Near Arras,' in the late 1850s, showing a farmhouse and fields in a greener time of year.  The thatched-roof farm buildings just visible in the far distance in Cuvelier's photograph are very much like the farmhouse that is a more central subject in Corot's painting. 

Gauss lists only one print of this image: the albumen print offered here.  Aside from this image, Cuvelier is known to have made one other photograph at this site (cf. Eugène Cuvelier, no II/7).